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Hi all and
welcome to yet another edition of Untangling the Web. In this post I’ll be discussing the mammoth Google Books deal, followed by a rant encompassing many people’s opinion on literary prizes, and finally some useful links for the literature-inclined. As always, thanks go to my main sources of links: [...]
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Hello all and
welcome to the second edition of ‘Untangling The Web’! UtW’s aim is to become a semi-regular blog built to provide you with some of the trending topics across the Internet that relate to writing and publishing. Hopefully in doing so we’ll be able to generate some discussion and opinions about [...]
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You may have
read about the 17-year-old German author who recently admitted to pulling large chunks of unedited text from another author’s book. Helenne Hegemann’s book, entitled Axolotl Roadkill, in addition to being a bestseller, has also been nominated for a distinguished prize (Google Translated from German to English). This wouldn’t be [...]
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If there’s one
thing that I’ve been fortunate enough to have throughout my entire life, it’s amazing friends. My high school buddies, my uni mates, my post-grad colleagues; all of them have been supportive, loving, giving folk whose friendship humbles me whenever I slow down enough to think about it.
But it’s the latter [...]
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I have just
finished watching the beautiful, eloquent novelist Chimamanda Adichie give a speech on ‘the danger of the single story’ (thank you to Aditi for tweeting about it, else I might have missed it in the TED talks feed). She speaks on the danger of allowing one’s self to assume that [...]